Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think any serious candidate will be opposed to [the increase]," said Paul A. Gusmorino '02, "but there will be opposition about whether the money should go to student groups, or to the council for Springfest-type things, or some other clever idea that hasn't been thought...
...Ibrahim Asgharzadeh now insists, all his idea. On Nov. 4, 1979, Asgharzadeh, then a radical 24-year-old engineering student, led a furious mob down Taleghani Street in Tehran, crashed through the U.S. embassy's gates and began a 444-day siege that not only humiliated America but also cemented a new Iranian political order. But these days, Asgharzadeh is a changed man. At 44, he is a yuppie-ish politician with a seat on Tehran's municipal council, and he is frequently denounced by hard-liners. He has shaved his beard and clearly prefers cracking jokes to raising...
...case a late-night pizza to go, Asgharzadeh and top planners Mohsen Mirdammadi, today a political-science professor, and Abbas Abdi, an outspoken newspaper editor, revealed fresh insights into their moment of history. They denied, to start with, that Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini had put them up to it. "The idea came to me while I was studying," Asgharzadeh recalled, joking. "I didn't mind getting away from the books...
...chat room to lament it on TeenGripe.com For every pimply punk buying a pop CD, another kid with a good complexion has just released a debut album. Being a teenager these days is as effortless as being a Renaissance Man during the Renaissance. These kids have no idea how hard it is living in an era that has outgrown grownups. They just... I dunno. Forget it. Whatever...
What Zicam, which sells for $9 to $12 a bottle, has going for it is a simple idea for preventing cold viruses from attacking the nasal passages. Four years ago, a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggested that hapless snifflers could cut a cold's duration almost in half by sucking on foul-tasting zinc lozenges. That's because zinc ions are about the same size and shape as the molecular doorway through which one major group of cold viruses, called the rhinoviruses (rhino for "nose"), breaks into the nasal cells. Coat those viruses with zinc, and they...